ABS Adds Flight Instructor Academy

Pia Bergqvist

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 07:47 PM ET

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** Beechcraft Bonanza**

Key Takeaways:

The American Bonanza Society (ABS) Air Safety Foundation launched a new Flight Instructor Academy to expand its network of type-specific instructors for Beechcraft aircraft and support its BPPP training programs.
The academy provides a standardized, six-hour online program comprising 19 courses designed to teach instructor pilots how to effectively instruct on Beechcraft aircraft systems and operations.
Completing the program adds instructors to an ABS website list and offers a pathway to become an approved BPPP instructor, which includes payment and insurance coverage from ABS upon meeting specific experience and check-ride criteria.

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In an effort to grow its network of Beechcraft Bonanza, Debonair, Baron and Travel Air instructors around the country, the American Bonanza Society’s Air Safety Foundation has launched a new Flight Instructor Academy to support its BPPP Online+Flight and BPPP LIVE programs, which provide the ground portion of the organization’s type-specific training program.

“ABS created the ABS Flight Instructor Academy to ensure that Beech pilots everywhere have convenient and local access to safe, informed and effective type-specific training, in or out of the BPPP system, and to develop the next generation of BPPP instructors,” said Tom Turner, executive director of the ABS Air Safety Foundation. Turner said the Flight Instructor Academy was created to “teach instructor pilots how to teach Beech” in a standardized way.